Chapter 129: The Glacier

Chapter 129: Chapter 129: The Glacier

"Tsk tsk, truly laughable." Someone in the group propped their chin, their gaze lingering on the pile of mangled, shattered limbs, full of bewilderment: "Do these cultists have no brains? Panicking and then self-detonating — is that their tradition or something?"

"Probably." The person beside them replied. "But why did the Young Master also enter the secret realm? He’s still a first-year student."

The woman standing on the furthest edge retracted her gaze, her voice cold: "No need to mind a piece of trash. Whatever happens to him has nothing to do with us."

"..."

As soon as that sentence was uttered, the entire atmosphere froze.

The woman paid absolutely no mind, spreading her wings and flying straight ahead.

"We aren’t the only ones who came for the Caelum Jade this time. The Divine Temple and the Demon race have also intervened. If you don’t want to return empty-handed, cut the nonsense."

The remaining people exchanged glances. Helpless, but ultimately they could only follow.

Who dared to defy the orders of the second heir to the Magic Tower?

Moreover, after that Young Master awakened a low-tier Spirit Covenant, his status had met with opposition from the majority of the Tower’s upper echelons.

Coupled with the fact that he himself seemed to have given up, having no intention of vying for power.

Currently, two-thirds of the Magic Tower’s top brass leaned towards the woman in front of them — the holder of Holy Covenant 06, the second heir.

As long as she snatched the Caelum Jade this time, the heir’s seat of the Magic Tower would likely change owners from here on out.

Meanwhile, in another location.

Thanks to Phoenix’s Spatial Translocation, the group escaped the danger zone, landing in a valley.

Earlier, when releasing his spiritual consciousness in the air, the range Jeremy swept across also included this place.

The distance from the previous spot was less than a kilometer, but this was already the end of the forest.

The "deepest part" the beastkin mentioned was likely in this direction.

Jeremy looked around. There was no one else.

But the lingering auras proved that quite a few people had passed through here.

He relayed the information he hadn’t managed to say earlier: "The seven tier-four auras just now seemed to belong to people from the Magic Tower."

The Magic Tower...

Evelyn also realized that the difficulty of this trip to the Myriad Beasts Domain far exceeded their predictions: "Other factions might not have refrained from planting their people. The battle for the Caelum Jade this time will definitely become a bloodbath. Better to be careful above all else."

Leon remained silent for a moment before speaking up: "Being an accompanying item, the Caelum Jade and the Nyxfrost Immortal Herb will definitely descend at the same location. And our probability of securing it is almost zero. There’s no need to risk our lives to that extent."

That discouraging statement was very realistic. The truth was exactly so.

But...

Jeremy glanced at him, countering: "Nothing is settled yet. How do you know without trying?"

"What if we try and still fail?"

Jeremy didn’t mind in the slightest: "Then we fail. Giving it our best is enough."

If one turns back and runs when facing difficulties, who can guarantee they won’t sit and harbor regrets in the future precisely because of this step back today.

Leon said nothing more. Jeremy added: "If we truly can’t snatch it, giving up is fine. But if the serendipity hasn’t changed owners yet, it means we still have a chance."

Leon raised his eyes, his gaze piercing through the gaps between the leaves, tracking a few figures flashing by in the sky.

He seemed to say something. But the volume was too low, and he was standing slightly far from the other four, so no one heard clearly.

When Jeremy asked again, he merely replied: "Since it’s decided, let’s go."

"Alright." The group also didn’t mind.

The danger level of the valley wasn’t something the forest earlier could compare to.

Just a short distance in, it felt like standing in the middle of a magma purgatory.

Magma boiled. Poisonous scorpions and magma centipedes crawled densely everywhere. Beneath the magma layer, a few giant black shadows even rolled up.

They appeared to be Flaming Demonic Serpents.

Perhaps due to the suppression of the secret realm’s rules, their realms all stopped at tier four. But the intensity of their divine consciousness far exceeded what a tier four should possess.

Between tier four and the Intermediate Stage lay a vast abyss of separation. Under normal conditions, five Intermediate Stage individuals combined would find it hard to match a single tier four. Let alone beneath this magma layer densely packed with tier four magical beasts.

If just one surfaced, the whole group would be at a dead end.

The group drank invisibility potions, compressed their auras and magic power into a state of nothingness, and cautiously crossed the magma zone.

Passing the valley, right behind it was a region of extreme cold with a glacier river.

But unlike the previous section, countless Beastkin and other races were currently gathered on the glacier’s surface.

Among them were quite a few wearing masks and black cloaks, concealing both their auras and races.

Standing at the entrance looking in, the number was no less than thousands.

Jeremy swept his gaze around. Monster corpses were scattered everywhere — likely the spoils of those who arrived earlier.

It seemed this was the exact place where the Caelum Jade and the immortal herb would descend.

Currently, everything was in a static state. Everyone had already occupied a spot.

The majority traveled in groups. But there were also lone wolves.

Tier-four pressure permeated everywhere. The invisibility potion at this moment completely lost its effect.

The vast majority of those present were at the peak of tier four... a portion were clearly experts who had used forbidden arts to suppress their realms to slip in here.

The number of people at the Intermediate Stage and tier three, including their group, was less than a tenth.

Amidst a forest of tier-fours like this, for a few Intermediate Stage individuals like them to want to snatch the immortal herb, the difficulty... was higher than ascending to the heavens.

To make matters worse, the exact moment he set foot on the glacier river, Jeremy felt an invisible pressure bearing down to the point of making it hard to breathe.

This was not realm pressure from the others, but... an instinctive warning echoing from his dragon bloodline upon encountering a severe crisis.

Having analyzed the entire situation, Jeremy turned to look at his four teammates, smiling: "...I think we can give up now."

Leon: "?"

"Who was it just now saying that regardless of failure or not, we must try at least once?" He truly found it laughable.

The cold from the ice surface beneath his feet pierced upwards. Jeremy looked at the glacier river quietly melting in the distance, a bad premonition surging incessantly: "I’m out of options. I also want to try. But the situation is worse than I thought."

"Then let’s go." Leon actually didn’t mind. When seeing that the outcome could only be failure, he inherently didn’t want to compete, and was too lazy to waste time.

Lucius stood close to Jeremy, his fox tail loosely wrapped around Jeremy’s waist, clearly having no interest in any of it, but when opening his mouth, he still maintained his habit of smiling.

Precisely because of this, the dark circles under his eyes stood out even more: "I’ll listen to whatever the captain says~"

Phoenix said softly: "I’m fine with whatever."

Evelyn glanced around. She also understood full well that once the serendipity descended, the peace right now would shatter instantly.

If a battle broke out, Intermediate Stage individuals like them, in the eyes of those densely packed tier-fours like ants, probably wouldn’t even equate to a speck of dust.

However, just as the group prepared to abandon the contest, the seemingly absolutely solid ice surface abruptly cracked.

The entire ground shook violently. An earth-shattering sensation smashed the initial stillness. The whole glacier river instantly plunged into chaos...